BTS Data Clearinghouse

DataPalooza 6/3/2014 : Standards for Sharing Data Part 2

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1. BTS Data Clearinghouse USDOT Transportation Data Palooza GTMA Annual Meeting and TransData Expo Arlington VA 3 June 2014 Mary E. Moulton mary.moulton@dot.gov
2. Agenda About NTL NTL and data management Future plans
3. About the National Transportation Library  The National Transportation Library (NTL) is a repository of U.S. DOT transportation information and serves as a portal to transportation data.  NTL’s mission is to maintain and facilitate access to statistical and other information needed for transportation decision-making at the Federal, State, and local levels and to coordinate with public and private transportation libraries and information providers to improve information sharing among the transportation community.
4. NTL Service Mandates SAFETEA-LU □ Maintain a collection of statistical and other transportation information □ Facilitate access to the collection □ Coordinate with other transportation libraries an information providers in support of first two goals MAP 21 (49 USC 6304) expands NTL’s role □ Acquire, preserve and manage transportation information and information products and services for use by DOT, other Federal agencies, and the public □ Central repository for DOT research results and technical publications □ Central clearinghouse for transportation data and information of the Federal Government
5. What We Do  Reference Services □ USDOT “Contact Us”; RITA/BTS Answers Team □ USDOT and TIGER FAQs □ User training sessions □ Traditional reference and research services  Collections and Resources □ 40,000-item digital repository □ 100,000+ item physical collection (technical and law) □ 100 electronic databases □ 300 journal subscriptions □ Data archive and Data portal  Consultation □ Taxonomy and Ontology development □ Digitization services  Networking and Outreach Activities □ Transportation Knowledge Networks □ Transportation Librarians Roundtable □ Transportation Research Thesaurus □ Science.gov
6. NTL’s Partners
7. DOT Data Currently Available from NTL NTL Data Clearinghouse http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/repository/ntlc/btsdd/index.shtm □ Statistical data sets □ Geospatial data □ Sensor data □ Administrative (e.g. bridge inventories) □ Naturalistic study data □ Simulations and models National Transportation Data Archive is part of our strategic plan
8. Data Life Cycle • NTL helps researchers at several points during the data life cycle – Plan – Describe – Preserve – Discover – Integrate – Analyze Plan Collect Assure Describe Preserve Discover Integrate Analyze www.dataone.org/best-practices
9. – The NTL Digital Repository accepts submissions for the Data Clearinghouse – The NTL Digital Repository is discipline specific and OAIS compliant – NTL Librarians serve as liaisons to state DOT research managers and University Transportation Centers Plan Collect Assure Describe Preserve Discover Integrate Analyze NTL helps researchers plan for data management
10. NTL helps describe and document data – Metadata guidelines – Maintain authority files – Controlled vocabularies e.g. Transportation Research Thesaurus http://trt.trb.org/trt.asp – Links to related reports and data – Citation guidelines Plan Collect Assure Describe Preserve Discover Integrate Analyze
11. NTL preserves research data – NTL maintains and applies discipline specific controlled vocabularies to datasets – Version control – Ensure that data has appropriate permissions for reuse – Persistent URLs and DOIs for proper citation Plan Collect Assure Describe Preserve Discover Integrate Analyze
12. NTL helps researchers discover transportation datasets through search – NTL Integrated search and Data Clearinghouse search – Data.gov – Science.gov – Internet search engines – DOT.gov/data - NTL ensures BTS data sets are represented public data listing – NTL is involved in DOT open data working group Plan Collect Assure Describe Preserve Discover Integrate Analyze
13. NTL is working to ensure interoperability of data from different sources – NTL and BTS participate in interagency Statistical Community of Practice and Engagement (SCOPE) – Developed common metadata for cross-agency standard statistical data – Reviewed best practices for metadata management – Developed data dictionary – Data.gov will be able to harvest data from our sites Plan Collect Assure Describe Preserve Discover Integrate Analyze
14. White House OSTP Memo February 22, 2013 – Office of Science & Technology Policy issues memorandum “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research.” □ Memorandum addresses new requirements for both intramural and extramural publications and digital data sets resulting from federally- funded scientific research. □ Expand on Data.gov, Open Government requirements already in place. □ OST-R was assigned the responsibility for preparing response. Impact on NTL □ NTL is on the Departmental committee drafting the response (to help achieve our legislative mandate). □ NTL Digital Repository has been identified as the solution for long-term access to publications and data.
15. USDOT Response Publications •Most publications arising from DOT-funded research are already made available to the public (including intramural reports); principal DOT shortfall is availability of peer-reviewed, “scholarly” publications (i.e., journal articles) •Per MAP-21, NTL is now the federal repository for all Department research information and a clearinghouse for all Government transportation research information •Plan requires submission of accepted, final manuscript to NTL Internal reports will be available through, and preferably stored by, NTL □ To protect publishers, all manuscripts will be embargoed for a period not less than 12 months (prefer 18 months) □ Will require minimal upgrade of NTL software – open source software is preferred meaning minimal additional costs □ All publications, data sets and authors will have unique permanent identifiers for correlation of articles with authors and relevant underlying data
16. USDOT Response Data •DOT makes some, but not all data available □ Excludes that which has confidentiality, privacy, proprietary, IP, security, and other exemptions and protections •Intramural □ DOT’s Data Release Policy is the governing document for research data management □ Management will remain with each OA □ Will require minor updates to OA capabilities, including permanent identifiers •Extramural □ Will require submission and DOT approval of data management plan from all awardees □ Awardees will determine repository for depositing data; MUST be accessible by NTL / NTDA □ Data will be included in DOT Enterprise Data Inventory
17. USDOT Response Research Project Records •Goal: to enable linkage of publications and underlying data via the NTL, to enable public access through a simple unique identifier •DOT will require the submission of project records by DOT funding recipients (intramural and extramural) that fully describe project activities •Project records will be required to be submitted to the Transportation Research Board’s Research in Progress (RiP) database •Summary descriptions of any documented project outputs and outcomes resulting from research implementation will be required to be submitted to the USDOT Research Hub •Project records will be required to be updated over the duration of the project •DOT will develop step-by-step guidance for the submission process
18. Thank You!